BEST PRACTICES
Access Controlled: Limiting Employee Tracking
RFID access cards can do more than let people into their workplace. If you're collecting information about your staff, here's what you—and they—need to know.
COVER STORY
Smarter Products Is Smart Business
Companies are gaining a strategic advantage by embedding RFID tags, and in some cases interrogators, in their products—and they're finding a return on their investment in areas that may surprise you.
LAB REPORT
Are Item-Level Tags Up to the Job?
The RFID Alliance Lab tested four commercially available EPC Gen 1 UHF tags and found that each had limitations.
VERTICAL FOCUS
Keeping Fresh Foods Fresh
Produce, meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products often travel cross-country or between continents before ending up on store shelves. Given this lengthy journey, using RFID to improve food safety and shelf life has become a top priority for suppliers and retailers.

Departments

Editor's Note
Are Your Products Smart?
Getting the most out of your products with RFID.
Out in Front
RFID on Tap
A technology company has developed a unique RFID solution that measures how much alcohol bartenders have poured, which could boost a bar's liquidity.
Out in Front
Taking RFID to New Depths
Water is high on the list of items that are not RF-friendly, but that didn’t deter French startup Enertag from creating an RFID system to monitor undersea oil pipelines.
Out in Front
Identifying Handwritten Data
The next chapter: writing RFID label information by hand.
Perspective
RFID Goes Vertical
In 2006, end user companies will focus on technological solutions that can solve problems within their specific vertical industry.
Perspective
RFID Journal Adds Vertical Industry Channels
Eight vertical industries make it easier to find the information you need.
Perspective
2005 and 2006 Predictions
Here's a look at our predictions for 2006 and how we did on our prognostications of a year ago.

Columns

Inside the Labs
Research Will Overcome
An aggressive program is under way to reduce barriers to RFID adoption in the aerospace industry.
Stay Tuned
Rethinking Privacy
Radio-based technologies change the way we gather, access and protect data.
Ashton's View
Scale Matters
As RFID moves from pilot to deployment, the thing that will most starkly separate success from failure will be the ability of systems to scale.
Inside the Labs
Research Will Overcome
An aggressive program is under way to reduce barriers to RFID adoption in the aerospace industry.